Train to Cardiff - and back

Is lunch the ultimate enemy of art?

I'd hoped to write something while at ease,

But bagels - the smoked salmon & cream cheese -

With a chilled Sauvignon Blanc to start

Before the chocolate flapjacks - and the need

To catch up with the papers - all conspired

To make me doze away the thoughts inspired

By Cardiff Bay and a new Traviata.

Sunday - and I've only done eight lines;

And even then the last one doesn't rhyme.

The Quiet Carriage ought to aid my mind

But morning coffee and papers fill my time

          Till suddenly we're back at Paddington

          And all that carefully planned time - has gone!

Brian Hick autumn 2009

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